poor sport
Example Sentences
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I know he was hurt, but what a poor sport.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2022
Spitting in a cup at Doral in 2007, or being a poor sport after losing an Open playoff to Padraig Harrington later that summer?
From Golf Digest • Aug. 6, 2019
Moreover, he’s an ineffective and unsatisfying dissenter, often coming across as little more than a poor sport.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2016
The gesture prompted a torrent of commentary about Radwanska as rude, icy and a poor sport.
From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2013
He seems to consider that the greatest fun on board is to rumple up the stewards' hair or to knock off their caps, and as they can't retaliate it is poor sport.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
